On this day in history
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1533: Henry VIII marries Anne Boleyn.
1791: British Parliament approves bill splitting the old province of Québec into Upper Canada and Lower Canada, each with its own assembly. London, England
1915: Alexander Graham Bell in New York and Thomas Watson in San Francisco make a record telephone transmission.
1919: The League of Nations plan is adopted by the Allies.
1924: Canadian team attends the opening of the first Winter Olympic games at Chamonix. Canada wins only a single medal in men's ice hockey.
1955: Columbia University scientists develop an atomic clock that is accurate to within one second in 300 years.
1977: René Lévesque tells Wall Street audience at the Economic Club of New York that separation is inevitable.
1984: President Reagan endorses the development of the first U.S. permanently manned space station.
1993: Catherine Callbeck sworn in as Premier of Prince Edward Island, replacing Joe Ghiz; first female premier elected in Canadian history.
2010: Canadian director James Cameron's 3D blockbuster Avatar becomes the highest grossing film of all time, having taken in US$1.859 billion worldwide, surpassing his 1997 film, Titanic. Avatar will go on to gross over US$2.7 billion.
